Young Leaders

Work life for young leaders is full of challenges. We will bring you, three times a week, quick caselets of challenges managers face across India Inc. If you've figured out how to solve them, write to us. Today's Caselet Sushil, a young team leader in a technology company, has a workaholic manager who works 24x7. Sushil, along with his team, is giving his 100%, but is fi nding it diffi cult to keep pace with the manager who seems to be obsessed with his work. What should he do?

KOZHIKODE: An alumnus of Indian Institue of Management, Kozhikode, has won the prestigious Queen's Young Leaders Award for his work in rural parts of the country and Nigeria for the upliftment of underprivileged students and tribal cooperatives. Akshay Jadhao , who worked through multiple organisations across the World, bagged the award given by The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust , Comic Relief and The Royal Commonwealth Society, an IIM-K ...

Companies come up with tricky questions to gauge candidates' abilities and preparedness . AnumehaChaturvedi looks at some typical issues that are raised , and gets some perspectives on how young leaders can handle them JM Prasad Chief, human resources, ING Vysya Bank Strategy QUESTION: Which strategic high-impact changes would you implement in your business and why? APPROACH: The question gives a good perspective...

Being a star young leader comes with its fair share of challenges. The organisation's expectations are high, and tricky issues such as an inefficient boss, time management , older colleagues and career stagnation can derail the best-laid plans. ET gives the young leader handy tips to take on challenges while keeping an eye on the big picture. HOW TO MANAGE OLDER COLLEAGUES Respect, appreciation and trust are traits that will...

Prime ministers' speeches are seldom discussed beyond a day or two, and their addresses at the annual Science Congress are discussed still less. Successive prime ministers have waxed eloquent many times at the Science Congress, praising Indian scientists and promising better funding for their research. But without any specific proposals and follow-up action, their speeches and ideas were forgotten quickly, to be remembered and forgotten again in the next Science Congress. This year,...

India will soon face one of the fiercest battles for talent, according to top global expert on talent and leadership Claudio Fernandez-Araoz. Indian companies need to not just hire talent, but also defend the talent they have, he says. Fernandez-Araoz, a senior adviser at Egon Zehnder, is the author of 'It's Not the How or the What but the Who' and 'Great People Decisions' among others. In India recently, he vouched...

NEW DELHI: Francisco D'Souza was 38 when he became the CEO and president of Cognizant in 2007. In five years since, he has led the company from $1.4 billion to over $6 billion in revenues. The board picked him young, but only on merit. "It was all about expertise and track record. If anything, my age was seen as an advantage," he recalls. Only 43, D'Souza is already the leader of 130,000 employees. What does he do next, with at least 17 years ahead in his career?

NEW DELHI: In the tussle between experience and energy, it's the latter that's in front these days in the race to the corner room. India Inc wants younger leaders. And, it's not just newer industries like organised retail, aviation and telecom that want fresh blood at the top. Traditional manufacturing companies from many Tata group companies to Larsen & Toubro are hungry to hire leaders in the 30-45 year old bracket. The only problem?...

Every Tuesday & Friday, we will bring you snappy caselets of challenges faced by young managers across India Inc . If you think you know the solution, write to us. CASE STUDY Shweta has been working for a telecom company for the past three years. Her work hours stretch beyond the time she spends in office. She has often been taking work-related calls till late evening. But she got married a few months ago and while her husband...

Hayley Bolding , a young Australian professional, who moved permanently to Mumbai in 2005, believes that a platform for young leaders from both Australia and India to engage is very important. "I first came to India as a volunteer in 2005. I fell in love with the country but also became inspired by the non-profit sector in India and the cause of education. This led me to set up Atma, an NGO, along with an amazing group of people I had met in Mumbai that also wanted to work...

NEW DELHI: Tata Communication's Srinivasa Addepalli has been named one of the world's 40 young leaders who have the potential to drive the future course of the fast-growing global telecom industry, according to a survey. Addepalli, Tata Communication's senior vice-president for corporate strategy, is the only Indian in the list of 40 individuals under the age of 40 years. The survey, sponsored by global consultancy firm KPMG...

Eight top chief executives from Corporate India fielded questions from 36 finalists of the inaugural ET Young Leaders B-School Edition. They discussed entrepreneurship, work-life integration, startups, leadership, diversity and challenges millennials face with the leaders of the future. Prior to the discussion, four panels comprising two CEOs each interviewed the candidates and picked the 19 who made it to the ET Young Leaders B-School Edition...

DIVERSE GROUP Question sample HIMANSHU KAPANIA: You'd led the table-tennis team. What has been your leadership learning from sports? What do you think about the controversy about Sanskrit replacing German? SAUGATA GUPTA: Suppose you had to do a South Indian version of McDonald's. How would you make it successful? Does the Indian education system encourage clones? CEO Take "The overall experience was...

MUMBAI: Just two weeks ago, Harish Manwani , chief operating officer of Unilever, was in Harvard to deliver a talk on building global leaders. Last week, at Hindustan Unilever's corporate office in Mumbai, Manwani again addressed a team of young leaders from India's top B-schools as part of the consumer goods giant's yearly Premier-30 League Tree initiative. Close to his retirement as Unilever COO by the end of next month, Manwani, 62,...

PATNA: BJP today remembered party stalwart Kailashpati Mishra on his second death anniversary and said true tribute to him would be to usher the party to power in Bihar. Senior BJP leaders Murli Manohar Joshi, Union Ministers Radha Mohan Singh, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Dhramendra Pradhan joined the state leaders in paying tributes to Mishra, who had served as party vice-president and former Governor of Gujarat. Speaking on the occasion, Joshi said he...

JAIPUR: A delegation of Congress leaders led by state party chief Sachin Pilot today called on Governor Kalyan Singh and highlighted the alleged rise in crime in Rajasthan . The delegation asked the Governor to issue appropriate directions to the state government in this regard. The delegation included former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, MLAs and former MLAs. Heinous crimes are on a "rise" in the state but the government is not serious. There...

India's young leaders need to have a stronger voice as politicians tend to listen to strong voices, says Patricia Hewitt, chair, UK India Business Council . The membership-led organisation is backed by UK Trade and Investment, which promotes bilateral trade between UK and India. Excerpts from an interview to ET on the sidelines of an event organised by CII and Young Indians. What are your views on the leadership in India,...

BHOPAL: Youthful Congress leaders helped the party in improving its political fortunes in Madhya Pradesh by defeating BJP's veterans. The poll victory has ensured a three-fold increase in the party's tally from four in 2004 to 12 in 2009. Even before the Lok Sabha polls were announced, analysts had a doubt that Congress will win more than four seats. But the party played smart and sensed that there was resentment among the BJP cadres over...

PANAJI: Newly appointed Goa Congress unit chief Luizinho Faleiro has said his aim would be to strengthen the party which was reduced to single digit during the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year. "Building a party organisation, unity and discipline would be my primary agenda," said the former state Chief Minister and AICC secretary, who was incharge of north eastern states and Karnataka before being given the new assignment. "I don't know...

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her deputy Rahul Gandhi will take initiatives to end the internal differences in the All-India Congress Committee when they return to Delhi early next week from a trip abroad. According to a source close to Rahul Gandhi, the party chief and her son would demonstrate they are the final arbiters in the 'old guard Vs young turks' feud and would disapprove of attempts to 'devalue' the party vice-president by portraying...